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"For readers of Hidden Figures and Something Wonderful, Footnotes is the story of New York in the roaring twenties and the first Broadway show with an all-Black cast and creative team to achieve success-and its impact on our popular culture. Amidst a culture actively whitewashing, controlling, or trying to prevent their stories from being told, these artists changed the course of American entertainment. This groundbreaking group of performers and...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, Charles S. Gilpin was the first African-American to star in a leading role in a stage play during a time where roles of color were previously played by white men in blackface. As Gilpin rose to fame and recognition, tensions were high between him and playwright Eugene O'Neill which ultimately lead to parting ways, though his acclaimed performance has changed Broadway forever.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[DVD].
Language
English
Description
That flashy girl from Flushing with the heart of an angel (and the voice of a slightly more nasal angel) is here at last in the Nanny. Detailing the comic misadventures of the sweet and sassy Fran Fine, her sophisticated employer, Broadway producer Mr. Sheffield, his boisterous brood and his wisecracking staff.
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Comedy about an agent Broadway Danny Rose and his attempt to revive the sagging career of the overweight, aging lounge singer, Lou Canova. Danny has finally booked Lou at the Waldorf, but Lou won't go on unless his girlfriend Tina is there on opening night. It's Danny's quest to round up Tina, an attempt that lands him right in the middle of a gangland battle.
11) Stage door
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
The film depicts the fears, setbacks and daily struggles of aspiring young performers, and, for the very few, stardom and success.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After a chance encounter, theater-loving teen Richard Samuels (Zac Efron) gets the opportunity of a lifetime when famous director Orson Welles (Christian McKay) gives him a small role in his 1937 production of "Julius Caesar." Unexpectedly thrust into the heady world of the stage, Richard finds himself surrounded by ambition, clashing egos and sheer brillance.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Language
English
Description
In Season Two, Broadway-bound musical Bombshell has competition on its heels in the form of Hit List, a rock musical written by two Broadway newcomers that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of Bombshell's team. As tension mounts on the road to Broadway, new romances are formed, loyalties are betrayed, and rivalries are reignited, all leading up to theater's biggest night; the Tony Awards.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
A backstage yarn about two hoofers, Johnny Brett and King Shaw, who are an ambitious dance team working in a dance hall for little or nothing. A mistake in names shoots King instead of Johnny into the lead of a Broadway musical. On opening night King is unable to perform due to intoxication, and Johnny is forced to perform to save his partner's reputation. The show's producers realize their mistake in identity and all is resolved.
15) Morning glory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A New England girl who is determined to become a Broadway star struggles to make it during the Depression, stopping at nothing to achieve her goal
16) Staying alive
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest chance yet-- making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Description
Happy go lovely: "The producer of a big Broadway show hires a chorus girl for the dubious reason that her boyfriend is a millionaire. His financial support would be of invaluable assistance to the floundering production"--Container.
Three Broadway girls: "Three beautiful gold diggers conspire to turn the male world upside down"--Container.
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Saturday Night Fever: Tony is an undereducated Brooklyn teenager who is bored with his daytime job. The highlight of his week is going to the local disco, where he is the king of the dance floor. Tony meets Stephanie at the disco and they agree to dance together in a competition. Stephanie resists Tony's attempts to romance her, as she aspires to greater things. Gradually, Tony also becomes disillusioned with the life he is leading and he and Stephanie...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013, 2019]
Edition
[DVD].
Language
English
Description
"Lily just knows she has the talent to light up the Great White Way, so when a big Broadway producer ... visits her [Indiana] hometown, she expends all the candlepower of her charisma to impress him. He's not impressed. He heads back to New York and Lily follows, thumbing her way east on what she's sure is a one-way trip to instant stardom"--Container.
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